On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote:
> physicalism, which essentially states that consciousness is nothing more > than an epiphenomenon, that physical processes and relationships suffice to > fully and completely explain everything. It's almost a tautology that physical processes and relationships can explain anything that can be explained, because any explanation corresponds to a physical arrangement of neurons in various physical states. Obviously nothing can explain a brute fact because no explanation exists, and I think that consciousness is the way data feels when it is being processed is (probably) a brute fact. To put it another way, I don't think that all sequences of "what caused that?" questions go on forever, I think some of them terminate. > > John argues that consciousness has real world consequences in terms of > being evolutionary selected Either that or consciousness is the side effect of something else that has real world consequences; if Darwin was right it can't be any other way. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
